Composition of matter for making gas.



1% NITED' STATES PATENT Caries.

CHARLES HENRY- WORSNOP, on HALIFAX, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF-AND THE. WORSNOP & COMPANY, LIMITED, OF SAME PLACE, AND

HENRY nnwnvnoneson, or OLECKHEATON, ENGLAND.

COMPOSITION OF MATTER FOR MAKING GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 656,238, dated. August 21, 1900.

Application filed Mar'bh 15,1900. Serial No. 8,701. (No specimens.)

To a whom it y 0071087! vessel till it rises in the bell=glass so as to im= Be it known that I, CHARLES HENRY WoRsmerse more or less of the composition. The NOP, a British subject, residing in Halifax, pressure exerted by the water upon the com county of York, England, (post-officeaddress position will cause the water to attack the 5 No. 6 Carlton Place, Halifax, England,) have composition and evolve gas. Continued evoinvented a new and useful Composition of lution of the gas results in pressure over the Matter to be Used for the Production of water in the bell-glass, the result being that Illuminating-Gas, of which the following is a the water is pressed down in the bell-glass, specification. the water rising in the vessel around the bellro Provisional application for this invention glass. When the water shall have been has been filed in Great Britain, dated August pressed down free of contactwith the com- 18, 1899, No. 16,763. .position, then generation of gas ceases, the

My composition consists of the following pressure of the gas and the pressure due to ingredients, viz: carbid of calcium, wax, cothe exterior column of water being in equilibt 5 cost-butter, and sugar. rium. The generation ceases under these The composition may best be produced as conditions, because the new composition will follows: The wax, preferably paraffin-wax, not generate gas by reason of mere wetness, cocoa-butter, and sugar in equal parts are directcontact of water under pressure being 7 mixed and heated sufficiently to melt the requisite. If gas be withdrawn from the bellzo mixture. At this point add a comparativelyglass, then the pressure of gas becomes lessweak organic acid, such as tartaric acid, until ened and the water rises and attacks the the sugar becomes of the same consistency as lowermost portion of the composition and the wax and cocoa-butter. Then immerse generation of gas begins again. Assuming the carbid of calcium in the hot liquid mixan illuminating-burner to be connected with 25 ture and allow it to remain for a sufficient the bell-glass, it follows that the mere act of period of time to become thoroughly impregclosing the burner to turn out the light causes hated. The impregnated'carbid of calcium the pressure to increase and the water to may then be withdrawn and placed on trays descend below the composition and further in a cooling-chamber, and when cooled the generation of gas to cease until the pressure 30 new composition is complete. I of gas is again lessened by withdrawal.

The new composition can be transported .The new composition requires for its utilifrom place to place without danger and may zation special generating apparatus based on be left in the open air without danger, being the demonstrating example just suggested. unaffected by the ordinary atmosphere or by Gas evolved from the new composition and 35 a damp atmosphere. When the composition burned in suitable burners gives a peculiarly is used for the generation of gas, which is brilliant and pervasive though soft and pleasdone by subjecting the composition to the ing light. action of water under pressure, the vloy-prod- \Vhat I claim, and desire to secure byLetuct does not cling to the good material, as ters Patent of the United States, is-

40 moist lime does to calcium carbid, but it falls 1. The herein described composition of 0 entirely away, leaving the unused clear mamatter for the production of gas, consisting terial to continue its work of generation. of carbid of calcium, wax, grease, and sugar,

The new composition possesses not only substantially as and for the purpose specified. the merits which have been indicated, but it 2. The herein described composition of 45 also possesses special meritsnin the way of matter for the production of gas,consisting 5 self-regulation in generating gas, as may be of carbid of calcium, paraffin-wax, cocoa-butunderstood from the following: Let a quanter, and sugar, substantially as and for the tity of the composition be supported in an purpose specified. inverted bell-glass set'down in but free from 3. The herein-described process of produc- 50 the bottom of a vessel. Pour water into the ing a composition of matter for the production 10o of gas, consisting in melting together wax, grease and sugar, then immersing carbid of calcium in the hot liquid mixture fora time, and then withdrawing and cooling the treated carbid of calcium.

4. The herein-described process of producing a composition of matter for the production of gas, consisting in melting together paraflin-Wax, cocoa-butter, and sugar, then immersing carbid of calcium in the melted 1' mixture for a time, and then withdrawing and cooling the treated carbid of calcium. CHARLES HENRY WORSNOP. Witnesses:

WILFRID ERNEST \VORSNOP, FRANK DAWSON. 

